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“She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.”

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Joyce Carol Oates is a renowned American author born on June 16, 1938. Her works span various literary forms such as novels, poetry, and drama, known for her unique narrative techniques and profound thematic explorations. more

“It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'--and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.”

World Littles Said Sometimes Principles Changed Ideals Ears Angry Genuine Despise Visceral Make Me Angry

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.”

Knows Looks Persons Crazy Danger And Love Truck Ladders Pins Urgency Grapes Undone Insurmountable Crazy Person

Book:When You Are Engulfed In Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed In Flames

“This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.”

Bits Tricky

Author:Hugh Laurie

“At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.”

World Long Lasts Felt Parent Existence Cutting Security Materials Excess Peers Abstraction Stifling

Book:Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

“Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me.”

Firsts Body Song Opportunity Fine Mass Murder Killing Kicks Jury Convicts

Book:J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection

Source: J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection

“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”

People Life Has Beens Sometimes Hard Imagination Approach Mirrors Glasses Refuse Invisible Surroundings Circus Figments Sideshows

Book:Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man

“You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.”

People Knows Littles Different Whole Simple Complicated Assured

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.”

Want Want Me You Want Me Just Love Me

Book:Invisible Monsters: A Novel

Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel

“We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.”

Knows Dog Notion

Author:Jose Saramago

“Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.”

People Culture Courses Imagination Activity Behavior Destruction Entertainment Autonomy Materialistic

Author:James Hillman

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